1 Corinthians 3:2
with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,
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Referenced Verses
- John 16:12 : 12 `I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear `them' now;
- 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
- Heb 5:11-14 : 11 concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing, 12 for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what `are' the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food, 13 for every one who is partaking of milk `is' unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant, 14 and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.
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1 And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;
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11 concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,
12 for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what `are' the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,
13 for every one who is partaking of milk `is' unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant,
14 and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.
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3 for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?
4 for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, `I -- of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?
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2 as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
3 if so be ye did taste that the Lord `is' gracious,
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20 Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
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7 But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,
8 so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,
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9 By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,
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11 When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;
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12 `I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear `them' now;
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13 and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,
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14 Not `as' putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,
15 for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;
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3 so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?
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3 and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you;
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13 which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,
14 and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned;
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6 These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,
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1 O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:
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20 and ye did not so learn the Christ,
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14 that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,
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3 manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,
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3 so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,
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9 with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for `it is' good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;
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3 and all the same spiritual food did eat,
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3 since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,
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8 nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;
9 not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;
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19 my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,
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15 and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that `is' in Christ Jesus;
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14 Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,
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1 And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;
2 ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;
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6 And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,
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6 and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.
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11 If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great `is it' if we your fleshly things do reap?
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1 And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;
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16 And Jesus said, `Are ye also yet without understanding?
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3 The fat ye do eat, and the wool ye put on, The fed one ye slaughter, the flock ye feed not.
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15 As many, therefore, as `are' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,
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5 because of this also, I, no longer forbearing, did send to know your faith, lest he who is tempting did tempt you, and in vain might be our labour.
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15 what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;
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13 And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you -- and was hindered till the present time -- that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.
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13 wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.